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Disability Commission Pushes For Sign Language In Schools - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 30, 2022
The Executive Secretary of NCPWD, James Lalu, said this when members of Association of Sign Language in Nigeria and National Association of the Deaf in Nigeria paid him a visit in Abuja.
Lalu explained that the push was to ensure that the deaf community is not left behind in access to communication, social, health, economy, financial and security services.
Also speaking, the former president of National Alliance for Black Interpreters in Washington DC, Lisa Weems said she was looking forward to do positive things with sign language interpreters and the deaf community.
Similarly, , the National President of the Nigeria National  Association of Sign Language Interpreter, Timothy Tinat said the association was celebrating the International Week of Sign Languages.

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Disagreement: ASUU Asks Members To Prepare For Strike Action - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
February 6, 2020
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has faultedthe Federal Government of breaching joint agreements and directed its membersto be ready for a strike anytime from now.
The Union through the Chairman ASUU University of IbadanChapter, Deji Omole described the Federal Government as a serial defaulter. Hesaid the government had betrayed the trust the people had in it to repositionthe education system in the country.
Omole while speaking with newsmen after its Congress,lamented that despite its efforts at making Nigeria great through education,successive administrations have positioned themselves to make Nigeriaretrogressive.
He explained that the federal Government is untrustworthyand its policies are impractical, hence creating more problems than they cansolve, adding that the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information, IPPISis a distraction.

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Disaster: 21 Dead In Flooding In US State Of Tennessee - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
August 23, 2021
It was reported that Tennessee was hit Saturday by what meteorologists called historic storms and flooding, dumping 15 inches or more of rain. Rural roads, state highways and bridges were washed out and widespread power outages affected thousands of people.
Police Chief Grant Gillespie in a news conference said twenty people died in the town of Waverly, in Humphreys County. Humphreys County is about a 90-minute drive west of Nashville, the country music center.
Gillespie told journalists that the other death was in a rural area elsewhere in the county.
Local officials in Waverly likened the unusually intense storm to a hurricane or a tornado, and said water rose so quickly that some people were unable to escape.


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Disaster: Bridge Collapses In Nigerian University, Kills Four Students, Many Missing - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
August 6, 2019
Angry students protested at the Abubakar Tafawa BalewaUniversity, Bauchi following the death of four students when a bridge withinthe campus collapsed.
The concrete bridge collapsed after a heavy downpour. Manystudents are missing. About 20 students are said to have been on the bridgewhen the tragedy struck.
According to some students, the bridge collapsed while studentsreading for their exams were returning from the classes to their hostels.
The police in Bauchi confirmed the development, but referredjournalists to the University’s public relations unit for details.
A female student said, all calls put across to the managementasking them to come for help were not responded to.
The angry students have since barricaded the entrance of the newATBU campus, preventing the management staff from entering the campus.
The Gubi campus of ATBU has been a construction site, with many ongoing and some uncompleted structures littering all parts of the campus.

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Disaster: Food Poison Kills 24 Family Members In Sokoto - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
August 11, 2021
The Sokoto State government has confirmed the deaths of 24 family members after eating some poisonous food.
The state’s Commissioner for Health Ali Inname in a statement said the incident occurred on Monday in Danzanke village of Bargaja ward of Isa Local Government Area of Sokoto State.
He also explained that the incident was caused by use of a fertilizer type of chemical, popularly called ” Gishirin Lalle in Hausa” as seasoning in domestic family cooking which was considered as common salt.
Inname said the entire family who ate the meal lost their lives, except two female members, who merely tasted the food and are currently responding to treatment, with very good chances of survival.
The Commissioner however, advised the public to learn from this incidence and keep away such poisonous chemicals from easy reach and also appealed to people to always be cautious to prevent reoccurrence in their families.
Inname advised people to always separate storage sites for food items from other agricultural and cosmetic items and to carefully check all ingredients and food stuff before use.


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Disaster Management: Our Relationship With The Military Critical – NEMA - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
September 25, 2019
Director General of National Emergency ManagementAgency NEMA, Mustapha Maihaja says that continuous collaboration with themilitary for effective and timely response to disaster in the country is ofprime importance.
He said this while receiving a delegation of 23 foreigndefence attachés in Abuja.
Maihaja stated that the agency had theresponsibility of coordinating all federal apparatus to respond to eithernatural or man-made disasters in any part of the country.
He noted its efforts to strengthen the relationshipwith the military, observing that the agency had a memorandum of understandingin that regard.
Earlier in his remarks, Director, Foreign Laison,Defence Intelligence Agency, Brigadier General Undiandeye Parker, noted thatthe delegation comprised directors of different foreign attaché and advisersdeployed to the country on diplomatic mission.

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Disaster Management: Senate Committee Advocates More Support For NEMA - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
August 29, 2022
The committee made the recommendation when its members visited the agency on an oversight visit.
This is contained in a statement signed by Head, Press Unit of the agency Manzo Ezekiel in Abuja.
According to the statement, Chairman of the Committee, Yusuf Yusuf, said the increasing incidents and complexity of disasters required efficient response which could only be achieved with proper investment in disaster management.
Yusuf, who said that the visit was to appraise budget implementation by NEMA, also commended the management of the agency for being prudent with funds in the management of the disasters in the country.
Responding, Director General, NEMA, Mustapha Ahmed, appreciated the committee for the oversight visit; he said the agency had continued to receive tremendous supports and attention of President Muhammadu Buhari in the delivery of its mandates.


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Disaster: Zimbabwe’s President Lauds Nigeria For Extending Assistance - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
May 15, 2019
President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe, has commended the government of Nigeria for its assistance to the people of Zimbabwe, who were recently hit by a tropical disaster, Cyclone Idai.
Mnangagwa, made the commendation when he received a Federal Government Delegation, led by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, on Wednesday at the State House in Harare.
The Zimbabwean leader also congratulated Buhari on his re-election saying he is happy that he won the election for the second term as leader of Nigeria.
Earlier, Onyeama expressed gratitude to the President of Zimbabwe for the warm reception accorded to the Nigerian delegation.
The minister said Buhari had directed him to deliver relief items comprising medicine and medical equipment to the government of Zimbabwe to help the country recover from the devastating effects of cyclone idai


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Disease Control: FG Reviews Surveillance Guidelines - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
August 29, 2019
The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for DiseaseControl NCDC, Chikwe Ihekweazu, says the centre is reviewing the technicalguidelines for Nigeria’s Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response strategy,alongside government and international partners.
Ihekweazu who said this in an interview in Abuja,explained that the goal was to develop a concise plan to ensure improveddetection and response to infectious disease outbreaks.
Ihekweazu said the challenges of being an earlystarter was becoming very difficult to integrate with many other good systemsbecause the centre have developed very well over the years in just one system.
He however, said that there was a level ofcommitment as a nation to combat infectious diseases, while noting thatsurveillance is a collaborative effort that requires the support of States andTertiary Hospitals.
He said that Nigeria would be the first country toadapt the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response, IDSR of the WorldHealth Organisation WHO and Afro technical guidelines.

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Disease Control: FG Reviews Surveillance Guidelines - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
August 28, 2019
The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for DiseaseControl NCDC, Chikwe Ihekweazu, says the centre is reviewing the technicalguidelines for Nigeria’s Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response strategy,alongside government and international partners.
Ihekweazu who said this in an interview in Abuja,explained that the goal was to develop a concise plan to ensure improveddetection and response to infectious disease outbreaks.
Ihekweazu said the challenges of being an earlystarter was becoming very difficult to integrate with many other good systemsbecause the centre have developed very well over the years in just one system.
He however, said that there was a level ofcommitment as a nation to combat infectious diseases, while noting thatsurveillance is a collaborative effort that requires the support of States andTertiary Hospitals.
He said that Nigeria would be the first country toadapt the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response, IDSR of the WorldHealth Organisation WHO and Afro technical guidelines.


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Disease Expert Expresses Concern Over Cats With Rabies In Bauchi - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
November 28, 2022
Umar expressed his concern in an interview with Newsmen in Bauchi.
He said the concern was imperative considering that rabies was known to be attributed to dogs, and that the viral disease could affect all animals including human beings if they were exposed to it.
According to him, cases of rabies among cats are a threat to public health as keeping cats has become a biological remedy to rats in households.
He also said that the vaccine for treating cats infected with rabies differs from that of dogs having rabies.
Umar advised the public against eating cat saying its consumption could expose them to the virus.

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Disease Outbreak: Immunisation, Foundation Of Primary Health Care System In Nigeria - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
December 18, 2019
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDAsays immunization is the foundation of Primary Health Care, PHC system in thecountry.
The Agency’s Executive Director Faisal Shu’aib said this atthe Expanded Interagency Coordination Committee, ICC to review Nigeria’sStrategy on Immunisation and Primary Health Care System Strengthening, NSIPSSin Abuja.
He said immunisation is also a key tracer of PHCperformance, while emphasising the importance of routine immunisation in thefight against any disease outbreak.
The meeting is the first high-level gathering by GAVI Boardand Alliance Gavi since the inception of the system accountability framework.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control’s Director-General,Chikwe Ihekweazu, said that workforce development was a critical component ofthe work they do at the centre. He outlined the centre efforts to strengthensurveillance for vaccine preventable diseases in the country.
Earlier, the Chief Executive Officer of GAVI, Seth Berkley,appreciated the Nigerian government for receiving the Gavi high-level team todiscuss how vaccines would work for all Nigerians as well as strengthening theprimary health care system.

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Diseases: KDSG Confirms Cholera Kills 175 In 2021 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 4, 2022
State Commissioner of Health Amina Muhammed-Baloni spoke when receiving cholera testing equipment donated by the World Health Organisation, WHO to the state, meant for the Zonal Cholera Laboratory located at the Late Yusuf Dantsofo Memorial Hospital in Tudun-Wada.
She told reporters that the state witnessed 175 deaths due to cholera outbreaks in 2021, as almost all the 23 local government areas in the state were hit by the disease.
Amina added that the donation by the world health body will go a long way to enhance the containment of the disease in the state.
The COMMISSIONER who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Adamu Mohammed-Mansir, said as far the issue of cholera was concerned in 2021, virtually all the local government areas had cases of cholera and casualties.
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Disorder As Somalia Prime Minister Sacks Security Minister - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
September 9, 2021
Prime Minister Mohamed Roble fired the Minister on Wednesday but President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo overruled the move.
Roble replaced Security Minister with Abdullahi Mohamed Nur.
President Farmajo on Thursday said the move was unconstitutional.
It would be recalled that this is the second time the Prime Minister and President are differing on appointments.
The Prime Minister had last weekend fired the Spy Chief and the President recalled him then later appointed him on a new role, this is coming after the Spy Chief defied the directive to produce a complete report on the disappearance of a spy agent in 48 hours.
The two leaders have in the past differed publicly on policies.
Farmajo banned pacts with foreign entities until after elections but the Prime Minister went ahead to sign agreements in his Kenya visit last month.

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Dispelling Rumours: DSS Denies Raiding ICPC, CCB Offices. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 11, 2023
In a statement issued by its Public Relations Office, Peter Afunanya, the DSS said, “To set the records straight, the DSS did not execute operations of any kind at the ICPC and CCB or remove files from their offices.
DSS said that “it will not shirk its responsibilities or allow some detractors to prevent it from undertaking its statutory duties or carrying out lawful orders by constituted authorities”.
Similarly, the CCB denied reports that the DSS raided its office to cart away documents incriminating President Bola Tinubu and his close aides

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Dispute: Uganda, Rwanda To Hold Meetings Amid Border Tension - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
December 13, 2019
Ugandan officials are expected to host their Rwandan counterparts in the capital, Kampala, for a meeting on Friday on the implementation of a treaty to end tensions between the two East African neighbours.
The meeting was initially scheduled for 17 October, but waspostponed.
The diplomatic dispute started after both countries tradedallegations of interference in each other’s affairs.
A Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, signed by UgandanPresident, Yoweri Museveni and Rwandan President, Paul Kagame in August, inLuanda, Angola,  has failed to ease tensions.
Rwanda closed its border with Uganda in March and hasrestricted movement of goods and people across the two countries.
Uganda’s government Spokesperson, Ofwono Opondo tweeted thattoday’s meeting will be attended by delegations from Angola and DemocraticRepublic of Congo, who are the facilitators of the agreement.
Opondo said all the delegates have confirmed participationin the meeting.

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District Head Of Daura Rescued From Kidnappers - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
July 2, 2019
The
District Head of Daura, Musa Umar-Uba, who was kidnapped from his residence
three months ago, has been rescued by security agents in Kano.
A
younger brother to the victim, Tukur Umar, said in Daura that the Magajin Garin
Daura was   rescued at about 7:25am
today.
He
said that the district head was rescued by a combined team of security
operatives after a serious gun battle with his captors who were holed up in a
secluded house along Madobi road in Samagu quarters close to Sani Abacha Youth
Center, Kano.
He
commended the security agencies for their tireless efforts which led to the
rescue of the district head and said the family would remain grateful to them
for their efforts.
Gambo
Isa, spokesman of the Katsina State Police Command confirmed the development
and said the police would issue details later.
Musa-Uba
was abducted on March 1, 2019 and since then, no contact was established
between his family and his abductors.


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Diversification: Senate To Support Greek Consortium On Improved Fish Production And Processing - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
November 5, 2019
The Senate has said that it would support AtlanticAfrica Gulf of Guinea Fisheries AAGF, a Greek Consortium on improved fishproduction and processing in the country.
This is in a bid to diversify the economy.
Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo Agege said thiswhen the group visited him at the National Assembly Complex, Abuja.
The project is to kick start from the Niger Deltageopolitical zone to spread to other geopolitical zones in the country.
The University of Patras, Greece will train 2, 500persons for a start, build state of the art processing plant in Nigeria as wellas trollers that could go as far as 200 nautical miles where canoes cannotreach.
Omo-Agege, who was delighted with the initiativesaid that the senate would give the consortium the needed support becauseaccording to him, it fitted into President Muhammadu Buhari’s agenda of liftingover 100 million people out of poverty.
Earlier, Ita Enang, Senior Special Assistant onNiger Delta Affairs to the President said that his office was working on oilalternative economy and economic diversification in the Niger Delta and theeconomy of Nigeria.

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Diversifying Nigeria’s Economy: 243 Firms Jostle For CBN’s Multibillion Naira Loan Scheme - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (A.M)
February 1, 2022
It disclosed that this was after 243 firms submitted applications with
The CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, disclosed this in Abuja while
presenting the cheques to the beneficiary companies through seven
participating financial institutions.
The companies comprise 14 manufacturing firms, 12 agricultural
companies, and two healthcare firms.
The PPP is CBN’s policy initiative unveiled last year at the launch of the
E-naira initiative to accelerate manufacturing output, and promote
further diversification of the nation’s economy to enable faster growth of
non-oil exports.
Under the policy, eligible companies in priority sectors are to be
screened and 100 companies will be selected to receive funding from the
CBN every 100 days, beginning from November 1 2021.
The selection of subsequent beneficiaries will be rolled over every 100
days with new sets of 100 companies.
While appealing to the beneficiaries to note that the facility is not a grant
but a repayable loan, he said the next cycle for submission of
applications for the 100 for 100 PPP statrts on February 1, 2022, and
will end on April 30, 2022.

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Diversion Of Funds :Court Remands Babachir Lawal In EFCC Custody - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
February 12, 2019
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday ordered that former Secretary-General to the Federation, Mr Babachir Lawal, be remanded in EFCC custody.
Babachir Lawal is to be kept in EFCC custody, pending the ruling of the court on his bail application.
Babachir had earlier pleaded not guilty to a 10 count charge of fraudulent diversion of funds meant for the clearing of evasive plants on the North East.
Lawyers to the former SGF argued his application for bail before Justice Okeke of the Federal High Court in Abuja.
The court however fixed the ruling on his bail application for February 13.

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DJ Arafat: Ivorian Authorities Arrest 12 Fans Who 'Desecrated' His Tomb - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 3, 2019
Twelve people have been arrested by authorities in IvoryCoast over the forced invasion of the grave of late music icon, DJ Arafat.
A statement from the Mayor of Abidjan, Vincent Tohbi Iriésaid investigations continue for the arrest of all offenders and to locate theresponsibilities at all levels.
The burial ceremony last Friday of the musician, turned chaoticafter his fans stomped his graveyard. The Mayor’s office referred to theincident as a desecration of the tomb of the musician.
Reports say some fans forcefully opened his grave and coffinbefore taking photos and videos of the corpse and posting same on socialnetworks.
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DMO: Nigeria Not Among High-Debt Risk Nations - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
August 12, 2021
The Debt Management Office DMO has reacted to media report to the effect that the World Bank had listed Nigeria among ten high-debt risk nations, dismissing it as false and misleading.
The debt management agency in a statement made available to newsmen said its attention was drawn to a newspaper report with the caption, “World Bank Lists Nigeria, Nine Others as High-debt Risk Nations”.
The DMO noted that the said publication claimed that the World Bank had classified Nigeria as one of the top ten ‘high-debt risk nations’ in the International Development Association Audited Financial Statement for the Fiscal Year 2021 published on Monday, August 9th, 2021.
It described the newspaper publication as not only false and misleading but also suggests an inadequate understanding of the essence of the World Bank’s report.


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DMO Puts Nigeria’s Debt Profile At N25.7trn - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
November 22, 2019
The Debt Management Office, DMO saysthat Nigerian’s total debt profile is 25.7 trillion naira.
The Director-General of the office,Patience Oniha announced this while addressing House of RepresentativesCommittee on Public Account in Abuja.
She said that external borrowingaccounted for about 32 per cent of the total debt while the 68 per cent wasdomestic.
The Director General explained thatthe office is an agency of government which began operations in 2000 followingthe country debt management problems of the country which led to the debtrelief.
She said that the agency wasresponsible for the management of public debts and its mandate includescontracting debts on behalf of the Federal Government. According to thedirector-general, this is clear under the Fiscal Responsibility Act andprovisions in the DMO Act.
The Chairman of the committee, WoleOke said that it was important for parliament to have all the relevantinformation documented.

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DMO Puts Nigerias Debts At N41.6trn Asks NASS To Control Deficits - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
September 2, 2022
Director-General of DMO Patience Oniha made the call at the public hearing on the Medium Term Expenditure Framework, MTEF organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Finance.
She explained that the budget deficit has been the main contributing factor to the country’s debt profile, noting that the debt profile will continue to grow as long as lawmakers continue to pass deficit budgets.
The Expenditure Framework proposal before the National Assembly has an estimated budget deficit of N11.03 trillion which represents 5.01 per cent deficit/gross domestic product, GDP ratio which is above the recommended edge by the Fiscal Responsibility Commission.
According to Patience, the debt profile of the federal government and the sub-national stands at 41.6 trillion naira, adding that the borrowing has increased in the post-COVID-19 era as the debt stock has risen by about 9 trillion naira.
The Director-General stressed that to address the growing borrowings the lawmakers must scrutinize the budget proposal, adding that revenue must grow at a significant rate to address the gap in the budget.
Responding to the DMO comments, the Deputy Chairman of the Committee, Saidu Abdulahi said the concern should be about sustainability, noting that the need for borrowing will always be there and Nigeria must borrow.

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Doctors Give FG July 19 To Meet Demands - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
July 10, 2023
President of the association, Emeka Orji, who gave the warning, in an interview, said the government had yet to invite the Resident Doctors, for a meeting regarding the agreements and other demands.
It could be recalled that NARD, had last Wednesday issued a fresh two-week ultimatum to the Government to begin the implementation of all pending agreements it reached with the association when it embarked on a five-day warning strike from May 17 to 21, 2023.
The doctors are demanding the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria to discontinue the downgrading of the membership certificate issued by the West African Postgraduate Medical and Surgical colleges; and the immediate payment of all salary arrears, implementation of the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure, new hazard allowance, and domestication of the Medical Residency Training Act, among others.
The association had signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MOU with the Government to address the issues raised by the resident doctors.


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Doctors Strike: Forum Calls For Talks With Individual State Government - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
August 11, 2021
The Progressives Governors Forum, PGF has called on the National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD to negotiate with individual State government to end the ongoing strike.
Chairman of the forum, Kebbi state Governor Abubakar Bagudu gave the advice in a statement in Abuja.
NARD ongoing indefinite nationwide strike is to demand for improved conditions and payment of unpaid salaries by some state governments. The strike is also to protest the failure to domesticate the Medical Residency Training Act 2017 in states, among others.
Bagudu noted that most of the grievances of the resident doctors was with the state governments. He said the issues affecting resident doctors in federal establishments should be negotiated with the relevant structures of the Federal Government.
The Chairman further said the forum, at its meeting of August 8, supported Federal Government’s call through the Minister of Labour and Productivity to immediately suspend the industrial action to allow for negotiations.


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Dokar Satar Akwati: An Samu Sabanin Ra’ayi Tsakanin Buhari Da Hukumar Zabe - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
February 20, 2019
Shugabanhukumar zabe mai zaman kan ta ta INEC, Farfesa Mahmood Yakubu, ya ce za a yiamfani da dokokin zabe ne wajen hukunta wadanda su ka aikata laifuffuka yayingudanar da zaben shekara ta 2019.
FarfesaYakubu ya bayyana haka ne, a wajen taron masu ruwa da tsaki da ya gudana a babbandakin taro na kasa da kasa da ke Abuja.
Idandai za a iya tunawa, shugaba Muhammadu Buhari ya ce duk wanda ya saci akwatinzabe ya sani hakan a bakin ran sa ya ke.
Yayinda ya ke tsokaci game da kalaman na shugaban kasa, Farfesa Yakubu ya ce za ahukunta wadanda su ka saci akwatin zabe ne bisa tanadin dokar zabe.
Yace matsayar hukumar zaben shi ne, za ta yi amfani da dokar zabe wajen hukuntaduk wadanda aka samu da hannu wajen aikata laifuffuka yayin zabe.

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Dokpesi: Court Adjourns N5bn Libel Suit To Sept. 23 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
June 18, 2019
An Abuja High Court  today adjourned until September 23rd,  a five billion naira defamation suit, filedby Raymond Dokpesi against immediate past Minister of Information and Culture,Lai Mohammed and former Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami.
A chieftain of the PeoplesDemocratic Party (PDP) and chairman of DAAR Communications Plc, Dokpesi, filedthe suit on April 30th, seeking five billion naira in damages from Mohammed andMalami.
He alleged that Mohammed and Malamidefamed his character by the inclusion of his name on the treasury looters’list.
At the continuation of trial,Counsel to the claimant, Ngige Kasiemobi informed the court that the defencecounsel served him with a statement of defence and  a motion for extension of time on Monday.
Kasiemobi prayed for a shortadjournment to enable  him respond to thestatement of defence.
Justice Olukayode Adeniyi adjournedthe case until September 23rd, for continuation of hearing, at the instance ofKasiemobi, holding fort for Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, counsel to Dokpesi.


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Dole Ne A Hukunta Wadanda Suka Kashe Sojoji A Delta – Tinubu - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
March 27, 2024
Manyan jami’an soji hudu da kananan sojoji 12 a ka kashe a lokacin da su ke kokarin sasanta rikicin da ya faru a yankin Okuama da ke karamar hukumar Ughelli a jihar.
Hedikwatar tsaro da babban hafsan sojin kasa sun samu amincewa ta hukunta duk wanda a ka samu da hannu a mummunan aikin da a ka yi kan al’ummar Nijeriya.
Tinubu ya bayyana hakan ne jim kadan bayan labarin yadda wasu sojoji su ka cinna wuta kan gidaje da dama a yankin na Okuama yayin da mazauna yankin suka tsere saboda fargabar harin ramuwar gayya.
A nashi bangaren, mai magana da yawun rundunar sojin Nijeriya, Birgediya Janar Tukur Gusau, ya bayyana cewa ba shi da masaniya game da harin kan yankin na Okuama, sai dai ya jaddada cewa dole ne sojoji su kwato makaman da a ka sace daga hannun sojojin da a ka kashe.


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Domestic Crude Oil: Auditor General Accuses NNPC, CBN Of Non-Remittance Of N3.235 Trillion - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 01
November 16, 2020
The Auditor General of the Federation has queried the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for not remitting about N3.235 trillion from the sale of domestic crude to the Federations Account in 2014.
The Auditor General said in one of the numerous audit queries pending against the NNPC before the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts that the corporation has also failed to respond to similar issue raised in 2012.
The new query which was sighted by The Nation is coming less than two weeks after the Auditor General’s office also submitted a similar query to the Committee accusing the NNPC of illegal withdrawals of $20.301 billion from the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Dividends account.
Following the development, Chairman of the House Committee on Public Account has asked the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Mele Kyari and the Governor of the Central Bank, Godwin Emiefele to appear before the House to offer explanation on the issue.

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Donations: Senate Calls For Policy For Effective Management Of AIDS - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
September 25, 2019
TheSenate has urged the National Planning Commission, NPC to develop a policyframework that creates mechanism for development cooperation and aideffectiveness in Nigeria.
TheSenate also directed relevant standing committees to oversee Ministries,Departments and Agencies , who are beneficiaries of development aids, grants toconsider such aids in the appropriation of funds for MDAs’ activities.
It also advised the state government’s Planning Commissions and Houses of Assembly to domesticate and implement federal policies and laws to enable states to achieve effectiveness in aids administration.
Thecall by senate followed a motion sponsored by Senator Oloriegbe Ibrahim, and 52other senators.
Presentinghis motion at plenary, Ibrahim said that there had been an increase inhumanitarian and emergency related aids to Nigeria.
Senatorsthat contributed to the motion emphasised the need to check the activities ofnon- governmental organisations who received funds from donor agencies withoutjudicious use of the funds for what it was disbursed for.


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Don’t Be Used As Political Thugs – Christian Youths To Nigerians - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 24, 2022
National Chairman of the Coalition Belusochukwu Enwere, in an issued statement, warned against electoral violence but enjoined the masses to defend themselves against killers in whatever guise who would disrupt the peaceful conduct of next year’s election.
He added that the organisation, as a major stakeholder in the electoral process, would commence a worldwide peace campaign against electoral violence in all parts of the country.
The State also enjoined the citizens to embrace peace at all costs and at all levels of next year’s general election.
Enwere, however, lamented that the 2023 general polls is fast approaching and the nation is ravaged by insecurity of varying degrees such as kidnapping, banditry, herdsmen, unknown gunmen, among other challenges.

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“Don’t Leave a Legacy Of Bloodshed,” Northern Youths Tells Buhari - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 21, 2021
They described the silence by the President and Commander in Chief of
the armed forces as ‘reckless.’
The youths appealed to the President to address lingering security
challenges in the country and ensure he does not leave a legacy of
bloodshed.
They add that failure to do so will make him remembered as the
President who came to salvage the nation from insecurity but left it
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Don’t Sign Attestation Forms If Owed, NFF Warns NPFL Players - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 26, 2022
They were contained in a recent circular issued by CEO of NPFL, Davidson Owumi following players’ protests over unpaid allowances and salaries over the years.
According to the circular, clubs are released from liability for arrears payable when players sign the attestation form.
Player who signs the attestation document discharges his club of liability for overdue payables to clear a pathway for registration.
Meanwhile, the date for the kick off for the upcoming season is yet to be announced.

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Doping Ban: Blessing Okagbare To Challenge 10-Yr Sanction At CAS - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 21, 2022
Blessing’s counsel, Chinedu Udora, who made this known while speaking with reporters, said the legal team would challenge the decision of the tribunal and is considering many options, in addition to looking at things they believed were not right.
He explained that some of the evidence used by AIU in handling a ban on 33- year-old Okagbare, who owns the Commonwealth Games record of 10.85 seconds in the women’s 100 metres for use of Human Growth Hormone, were not right.
The lawyer also faulted the AIU for not looking at the result of other laboratories that were not from World Anti- Doping Agency, WADA accredited laboratories.
Head of AIU, Brett Clothier, had in a statement said the decision of the Disciplinary Tribunal to hand the Nigerian athlete a 10- year ban was welcome as it would send a strong message against intentional and coordinated attempts to cheat at the very highest level of athletics.

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Dormitory Fire: Ten Tanzanian Schoolchildren Killed - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 15, 2020
Ten Tanzanian schoolchildren were killed when a dormitory at a privately-owned primary school in the north of the country caught fire, a senior government official said on Monday.
Police, the fire department and other government officials have started an investigation into the fire, the cause of which is unknown, Marco Gaguti, the regional commissioner for Kagera,said.
Seven other children suffered from burns during the inferno, which started before midnight.
Police are working with relatives of the pupils to identify the charred bodies, Gaguti said, adding that investigators are expected to establish the source of the fire in the next 14 days.

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Dozens Dead After Suspected Militia Raid In Eastern Congo - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 9, 2022
Many people were also missing after the armed men raided a mining encampment near the town of Mongwalu in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern Ituri province.
Army spokesperson Jules Ngongo Tsikudi confirmed a deadly attack had taken place at a mining camp near Mongwalu, but did not detail the number of casualties.
Civil society leaders estimated that between 30 and 50 people were killed. One said the local hospital had been overwhelmed by the number of victims.
Dieudonné Lossa, who leads a collective of civil society groups in Ituri, blamed the killings on the CODECO militia, which has built a reputation for attacking civilian encampments.
Its fighters killed 18 people at a Church in April, and another 60 at a displaced persons camp in February, authorities have said.
Attacks on civilians are daily hazards in Congo’s eastern provinces, where groups like CODECO and other warring militias, as well as a local Islamic State affiliate, routinely spar for territory and resources.


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D.R. Congo: 11 dead, dozens missing in boat accident - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
August 6, 2019
Authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo said on TuesdayEleven people have drowned and dozens are missing after a barge sank on a riverin central.
Sixteen people survived the accident on the overcrowded vesselby swimming to safety on the Lukenye river.
A local journalist said most of those on board were traveling tothe D.R. Congo capital of Kinshasa.
Boat accidents are common in the vast country, typically causedby overloading of passengers and cargo.
Tolls are often high because there are no life jackets and manyCongolese do not know how to swim.

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Dr Congo: At Least Seven Killed In New Train Derailment - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 4, 2022
The accident occurred in the Lualaba province Saturday, the second
accident in the area in a fortnight.
In mid-March, a train came off the tracks in the same area, killing at
least 75 people and injuring 125.
The toll could rise because a large number of clandestine passengers
were trapped under the upturned wagons as rescue team had been
dispatched to the scene.
Trains frequently derail in the vast Central African country, as there are
not enough passenger trains and few negotiable roads, so people needing
to cover long distances often travel by freight train.
As the spate of train derailment seems a common trend within the
African clime, experts suggest the developments may not only be
unconnected to overspeeding but also to outdated rail equipment, as well
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Dr Congo: Authorities Tests 12 More Patients For Ebola - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 5, 2019
Congolese President said twelve people were orderedto undergo testing for possible Ebola infection in Goma, days after threepatients in the densely populated city tested positive for the disease.
It added that six others suspected of carrying thevirus were discharged after testing negative on Friday.
A one-year-old girl became the third patient to testpositive for Ebola in Goma, local officials said.
She is the daughter of the second patient, a goldminer, who died earlier in the week.
His wife, also infected, and the young girl were instable condition.
Goma is the capital of North Kivu province, whichhas borne the brunt of the year-old epidemic that has claimed more than 1,800lives.
Other countries in the region fear the virus couldspread from D.R. Congo to their territories.

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Dr Congo Conflict: UN Says 50 Die Following Militia Attack On IDPS Camp - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 3, 2022
According to the UN Mission in the country, MONUSCO, the attack was carried out by members of the so-called Cooperative for the Development of the Congo, CODECO, a loose association of various Lendu militia groups.
Head of the Mission, Bintou Keita condemned the attack that also left 36 injured.
It was gathered that MONUSCO dispatched a patrol to the site upon receiving an alert about the attack and also notified national security forces as well as its community alert network.
The Secretary-General’s Deputy Spokesperson, Farhan Haq, while briefing newsmen in New York, said UN peacekeepers exchanged fire with the assailants shortly after arriving on the scene.
The blue helmets also conducted joint operations with the Congolese army into the early morning, pushing the assailants out of the area and securing the site to prevent further immediate attacks.

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DR Congo: Court Disqualifies 23 Opposition Members Parliament - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 13, 2019
TheDemocratic Republic of Congo’s constitutional court has disqualified 23opposition MPs who were elected in December.
Atotal 33 MPs were invalidated by the court.
Itdid not disclose its reasons, but the court is meant to make judgements onvotes recounted after complaints, our correspondent reports.
BloombergNews reports that six out of the nine judges that made the decision werenominated while former President Joseph Kabila was in power.
Itadds that the opposition alliance, known as Lamuka, has suspended itsparticipation in parliament, saying that the rule of law has been“assassinated”.
InJanuary, opposition candidate Felix Tshisekedi was sworn in after winning thepresidential election.
Atthe time he denied accusations that the election was fixed and that he had madea power-sharing deal with the outgoing president.
KenyanMP Rashid Kassim has been arrested over an alleged assault of colleague FatumaGedi, who sits on the budget committee.


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Dr-Congo Crisis: UN Says Violence, Aid Access Limits Impede Humanitarian Efforts - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 6, 2021
The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative and head of the UN Stabilisation Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO), Bintou Keita told the Security Council that food insecurity and cyclical epidemics were major concerns.
According to her, attacks on schools and hospitals have also exacerbated humanitarian challenges in several parts of the east, particularly Ituri.
It was gathered that with over five million internally displaced people, the country has the highest number of internally displaced persons on the African continent.
Keita however, called on members states to increase their contributions to the 2021 Humanitarian Response Plan that is asking for 1.98 billion dollars, noting that to date, just over a quarter of the plan was funded.
The special representative highlighted two main challenges: the security and protection of civilians in the east, and the process of democratic consolidation in the country.

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DR Congo Plane Carrying 17 People Crashes Into Town - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 24, 2019
An aircraft with about 17 passengers on board hascrashed into homes in Goma city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
North Kivu regional governor, Nzanzu Kasivita Carlysaid there had been deaths, but did not give a number.
The plane crashed into houses in the Mapendoneighbourhood after “missing” its take-off from the city’s internationalairport, he added.
The aircraft was owned by private carrier Busy Bee.

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Dr-Congo: Plane Crash Kills 25 Persons - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 25, 2019
Deaths from the passenger plane thatcrashed shortly after take-off, has risen to 25, including some on the ground,in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
North Kivu Governor Carly NzanzuKasivita’s office said in a statement that the plane, operated by local companyBusy Bee, crashed after take-off in the eastern city of Goma.
According to the National BorderHealth Programme, two survivors, including one member of the crew, were beingcared for at a local hospital.
The company said the 19-seaterDornier 228-200 had 16 passengers and two crew members on board heading for thecity of Beni north of Goma, when it crashed.
Witnesses said the pilot wasattempting to return the plane to the airport after they heard a loud soundthat appeared to come from the engine.

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D.R Congo: President Tshisekedi's Supporters Tear-Gassed - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Iliya Auta
June 24, 2020
Democratic Republic of Congo Police have tear-gassed and fired shots to disperse protesting supporters of President Félix Tshisekedi.
The demonstrators arrived on motorbikes to protest outside parliament in the capital, Kinshasa, about proposed changes to the justice system, as they were burning tyres and chanting as they protested.
The protesters say that a bill before parliament is aimed at ensuring that allies of former President Joseph Kabila are protected from prosecution. This is because they added it will give the Justice Minister the ultimate say over who is prosecuted.
In another development, Tunisia Interior Ministry says youths clashed with police in a town in Tunisia’s deprived south, where a protest movement is demanding jobs and services.
The Ministry’s Spokesman Khaled Hayouni said many people gathered Tuesday night in front of a local security forces facility in Douz, 475 kilometres south of the capital Tunis, to protest disrupted water supplies.
Protesters also came out in support of a growing demonstration movement underway in Tataouine, where protesters are demanding authorities make good on a 2017 promise to provide jobs.

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DR CONGO: Rebels kill scores in eastern region attack - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Iliya Auta
June 22, 2020
About 19 people have been killed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in attacks blamed on a notorious rebel group.
Officials say the bodies of nine people who were kidnapped on Friday have been found in North Kivu Province.
In the neighbouring Ituri region, the same militia known as the Allied Democratic Forces, ADF attacked the village of Bukaka on Saturday killing ten civilians.
The ADF, which has no clear political agenda has been accused for killing around five hundred people in recent months in retaliation for an army crackdown on their bases in the forests.
In another development, Kenya’s military has denied putting any of its barrack under lockdown amid media reports that dozens of soldiers are being treated at an isolation centre for Covid-19.
Kenya Defence Forces spokesperson, Colonel Zipporah Kioko said movement in and out of barracks had not been restricted, but steps had been put in place to protect the soldiers, which include testing, routine checks of body temperature, wearing of face masks and hand sanitation points in all barracks.


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Dr Congo Rebels Urged To Abide By Ceasefire Pledge - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 7, 2023
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has welcomed regional and international efforts led by the Angolan president and the African Union to try to stop a conflict that has displaced hundreds of thousands already.
He also condemned all violence against civilians and urged all armed groups to lay down their weapons and disarm unconditionally.
The UN Chief, however asked the M23 to honour a pledge to cease hostilities to facilitate full and effective withdrawal from areas it has occupied, some near Goma, the biggest city in the east of the country.
It was gathered that hours before the ceasefire brokered by Angola takes effect, heavy fighting between the Congolese army and the M23 group has continued in North Kivu province.
The ongoing conflict has displaced hundreds of thousands in the past year, and led to accusations that Rwanda is funding the rebels, which Kigali denies.


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Dr Congo Reports 5 Ebola Cases, All Dead – WHO - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 24, 2022
The country’s Office of the World Health Organisation, WHO said five cases of Ebola virus disease, including four confirmed ones, had been reported since the beginning of the 14th outbreak, which was declared in late April in the northwestern province of Equateur.
It also noted that all five patients have died and 234 contacts have been identified and are under surveillance, while 1,013 people, including frontline workers, have been vaccinated.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is experiencing its 14th Ebola outbreak since 1976, as the current outbreak is the sixth since 2018 alone, the most frequent occurrence in the country’s Ebola history.
According to the WHO office, previous outbreaks in Equateur Province were in 2020 and 2018, with 130 and 54 recorded cases.
It will be recalled that the Democratic Republic of the Congo had in December 2021, declared the end of its 13th Ebola outbreak in which eight cases were confirmed and three probable, including six deaths in the northeastern North Kivu province.


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DR-Congo: WHO Effective Vaccine Accounts For Defeat Against Ebola - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Iliya Auta
June 27, 2020
The World Health Organisation, WHO says effective vaccine accounted for the success in the fight against Ebola in Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC.
WHO Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, who said this at a news conference in Geneva, added that the agency had celebrated the end of the Ebola outbreak in Congo.
Democratic Republic of the Congo declared on June 25 that 10 Ebola outbreak in the country was over.
Many of the same public health measures that have been successful in stopping Ebola like case-finding, isolation, testing, contact tracing and respectful careers the same measures that countries are now deploying against COVID-19.
According to Ghebreyesus, it is clear that to bring coronavirus under control, and to save lives, effective vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics, are needed in unprecedented quantities and at an unprecedented speed.


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DRC: Journalists Demand End To Killing Of Members - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 28, 2021
Two journalists have been murdered in eastern Congo in August alone, according to the International Federation of Journalists, IFJ.
A radio-television director, Joel Mumbere Musavuli, was stabbed and killed along with his wife at his home by suspected Mai- Mai militiamen, in the early hours of Saturday, August 14, 2021.
Eight days earlier, unknown assailants had slit a journalist’s throat in the village of Bunyangula, Rutshuru near Goma.
In May, another journalist was shot eight times and killed just minutes after hosting a radio program in the Masisi area of North Kivu region.
The region which is awash with armed groups remains one of the worst places for journalists to work.
Threats to journalists come from militia groups and security forces according to rights watchdogs.
President Felix Tshisekedi as part of his campaign against armed groups had placed the region under emergency rule.


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Dress Code Violation: Police Boss Bans Use Of Unapproved Uniforms By Personnel - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 14, 2022
Acting Force Public Relations Officer CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, whol made this known in a statement in Abuja, said the Police Boss had expressed dismay over the violation of the approved Nigeria Police Force dress code by officers on patrol and guard, stop and search, and other routine operations.
According to Alkali-Baba, the officers have formed the habit of wearing t-shirts and face caps with “Special Forces”, “Commando”, “Gallant MOPOL”, “SCORPION”, and other inscriptions while on duty.
He also described the use of unapproved apparels as unacceptable, added that, uniform, which was a means of identification, had been abused by officers who engaged in improper dressing.
The Police Boss lamented the fear the unwholesome practice would create in the minds of innocent Nigerians.
Baba, therefore, ordered that all police officers detailed for patrol, stop and search, check point, and other routine operational duties must be in approved uniforms for easy identification.


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Drought: Millions Displaced In Northern Kenya. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 22, 2023
There are estimated to be 200 000 to 400 000 displaced people in the region.
Although the dire humanitarian consequences of this have persisted for decades, understanding and awareness of the issue, and responses to it, are woefully inadequate.


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Drug Abuse: Arewa Group Urges Governments To Ban Hawkers - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
December 14, 2019
ANon-Governmental Organisation, NGO, Drug Free Arewa Movement has called for theban of drug hawkers to rescue the northern region from drug abuse.
A Member ofthe Legal Committee of the group, Gambo Wakili made the call while reading thecommuniqué issued at the end of its first Anti-drug Abuse Youth LeadershipSummit in Abuja.
She said thatthe call had become necessary in order to clear the northern region of quackdrug sellers and administers that sell to ignorant people who misuse them.
Wakiliexplained that the group wanted the 19 northern states Governors, elders,traditional rulers, legislators, and other stakeholders to participate in thetotal emancipation drive to drastically reduce drug abuse and trafficking toensure generational sustenance.
According toher, the call followed a national survey on Drug Use and Health in Nigeriaconducted by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS which showed the rate ofdrug abuse in the north.
Alsospeaking, the convener of the group, Ibrahim Yusuf said that the group wouldpresent the communiqué to be used as a policy document by the Federal and stateGovernments to curb the challenge of illicit drugs.

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Drug Abuse Fight: NDLEA, NSCDC Strengthen Partnership - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 7, 2022
They made the commitment in Abuja when the Commandant-General of
the Civil Defence Ahmed Abubakar Audi, visited NDLEA Chairman
Mohamed Buba Marwa.
Audi explained that he visited to tap from Marwa’s knowledge and
experience in transforming the agency within a short time, seeks synergy
and collaboration between the two agencies.
The NDLEA applauded Audi for bringing to bear, his experience and
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Drug Abuse: Minister Seeks Effective Synergy To Address Menace - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 22, 2021
Sadiya, who was represented by Acting Director, Department of Social Development in the ministry, Mansur Kuliya, made the call at the Awareness Campaign against Drug and Substances Abuse and Illicit trafficking in Abuja, with the theme “Share Facts on Drugs, Save Lives’’, is organised by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development.
She added that the Ministry had the mandate to develop humanitarian policies and provide effective coordination of national and international intervention.
The Ministers also stressed that parents, guardians, village heads, government, Non-Governmental Organisation and Civil Society Organisations have a role in preventing our children from addiction and drug abuse.
Also speaking, the Director-General, National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP Fatima Waziri-Azi said Human and drug trafficking are organised crimes.

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Drug Abuse: NAFDAC, NAWOJ Partner To Sensitise Borno Women, Youths - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 10, 2019
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC says it has partnered the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists, NAWOJ to sensitise women and youths in Borno against drug abuse.
The Agency’s Director-General Moji Adeyeye who made this known in a statement in Abuja said that the event was in line with the agency’s mandate of curbing the menace of drug abuse in the country.
She said the workshop was organised by NAWOJ, Borno Chapter, in collaboration with University of Maiduguri, and NAFDAC.
She added that the State Coordinator of NAFDAC in Borno state Nasiru Mato, who delivered the keynote lecture during the event, reiterated that drug abuse, posed a serious threat to individuals and the nation at large.
According to the NAFDAC Boss, the lecturer accommodated a question and answer segment which also went a long way to address varied concerns of the several women and youth groups in attendance.


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Drug Abuse: Police Uncover ‘Fake Rehabilitation Centre’ In Daura - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 15, 2019
The Katsina StatePolice Command says it has discovered a fake Islamic Rehabilitation Center,named Malam Bello Islamic Centre. this is coming barely two weeks after thePolice uncovered a fake Islamic Center in Kaduna.
The centre, whichis located in Nassarawa Quarters, Sabon-Gari, area of Daura, has over threehundred students.
The stateCommissioner of Police Sanusi Buba, who led journalists for an on-the-spotassessment of the center, termed it as not only a replica of what transpired atthe Kaduna center but the most dehumanizing habitation no human being can thinkof living in.
Buba saidpreliminary investigation showed that Malam Bello, a former Qur’anic teacherfor close to 40 years, had been collecting children from their parents on apretense promise to rehabilitate them, but does the opposite as nothing Islamicor moral teachings happens here.
He said the policecommand was alerted when the students revolted and resorted to violent protestswith about 200 of them fleeing with the assistance of neighbours.

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Drug Abuse: Presidential Committee Nigeria Has 15 Million Addicts - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 29, 2019
TheChairman, Presidential Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Drug Abuse BubaMarwa has put the nation’s figure of drug addicts at about 15 million.
Marwa,who announced the figure upon visitation of the committee to Katsina State tomeet with critical stakeholders, described the situation as alarming and anemergency which needs to be urgently checkmated.
Accordingto the chairman, the global average rating of drug use is at five per cent, butin Nigeria, it is 15 per cent.
Marwasaid it was toward addressing the problem that prompted the Federal Governmentto raise the committee to proffer recommendations and steps to be taken toresolve the issue of drug abuse in the country.He emphasised theneed for government to strengthen security agencies in order to cut the supplychain of the abused drugs in the country.


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Drug Abuse: Stakeholders Demand Implementation Of Patent Medicine List - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
March 28, 2019
Stakeholdersin the health sector have urged the Federal Government to fast-track thedevelopment and implementation of the Approved Patent Medicines List to curbthe menace of drug abuse in the country.
Thestakeholders, who made the call at a planning meeting for the review of theAPML in Abuja, said the strategy would reduce the menace of drug abuse.
Themeeting was organised by the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria in collaborationwith the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria-Partnership for Advocacy in Childand Family Health at Scale Project.
Thestakeholders deliberated on the inclusion of drugs in the proposed APML foreach category of the three tiers of PPMVs focusing on FP and other PrimaryHealth Care commodities.
theSenior Programme Officer, PSN-PAS, Edwin Akpotor, said the meeting was aimed atreviewing and reaching an agreement on a road map towards re-positioning Patentand Proprietary Medicines Vendors to providing quality services at thecommunity level.


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DRUG ABUSE: UN office urges Govts to check supply chain to save 269m users - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Iliya Auta
June 26, 2020
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC has called on governments around the World to check the supply chain of drugs in order to save the over 269 million drug users around the globe.
This is coming as the World marks the 2020 International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, with the theme “Better Knowledge for Better Care”, also directs attention to the over 35.6 million people who already suffer drug-use disorders around the world.
The General Assembly by resolution 42/112 of December 7, 1987, decided to observe June 26 as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking as an expression of its determination to strengthen action and cooperation to achieve the goal of an international society free of drug abuse.
Supported each year by individuals, communities, and various organizations all over the world, this global observance aims to raise awareness of the major problem that illicit drugs represent to society.
The UN Agency’s Executive Director, Ghada Waly in a message to commemorate the Day, said addressing the World drug problem required responses that are based on facts, solidarity and compassion. He therefore called on governments to redeem their pledges to evidently fight drug supply, demand and use.


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Drug Addiction: NDLEA To Establish 6 Standard Rehab Centres In Nigeria –Marwa - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 28, 2021
The Chairman of the NDLEA, Mohamed Buba Marwa said this at the 5 Biennial National Symposium on Drugs and Drug Policy in Nigeria, held in Abuja.
The theme of the symposium organised by the Centre for Research and Information on Substance Abuse CRISA is: “Substance Use, Additive Behaviours and COVID-19.”
Marwa, who was the Guest of Honour at the symposium, said that the decision was part of efforts to treat the high number of persons suffering from drug addiction in the country.
He explained that when established, the centres would complement various efforts by the Federal, State and Local Governments, adding that three of the centres would start next year as already proposed in the 2022 budget.

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Drug Case: Court Declines DCP Abba Kyari’s Request For Bail - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 21, 2022
Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling on Monday, ordered Kyari to serve the
respondent – the Federal Republic of Nigeria – with the processes filed
and adjourned till February 24.
Justice Ekwo’s ruling was on an ex-parte motion argued on Monday by
Kyari’s lawyer, Cynthia Obianuju Ikena.
Kyari had dragged the Federal Government before the court challenging
his continued detention by the NDLEA.
The judge held that the allegations made against the respondent are
weighty, requiring that the court grant it an opportunity to be heard
before a decision it taken.
He thereafter fixed February 24 for the parties to appear before him.
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Drug Deal: Abba Kyari’s Co-Defendants Bag Two-Year Jail Term - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 14, 2022
Justice Emeka Nwite, in a judgment, said having admitted to have committed the offence preferred against them in counts 5, 6 and 7 by the NDLEA, Chibunna Umeibe and Emeka Ezenwanne, who are 6th and 7th defendants, “are hereby convicted accordingly.”
Justice Nwite thereafter sentenced them to two years imprisonment on eachof counts 5, 6 and 7.
He said the terms, which shall run concurrently, would commence from the day the defendants were arrested by the NDLEA.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the two defendants, Umeibe and Ezenwanne, who are 6th and 7th defendants respectively in the matter, are the two alleged drug traffickers arrested at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu by the Nigerian police and handed over to the NDLEA.
They had pleaded guilty to five, six and seven counts preferred against them by the anti-narcotic agency.
NAN earlier reports that at the resumed hearing, counsel for the NDLEA, Sunday Joseph, told Justice Emeka Nwite that two motions seeking a plea bargain in respect of Umeibe and Ezenwanne had been filed. Joseph said the motions, dated June 13, were filed on June 14.
The lawyer of the two defendants, E. U. Okenyi also concurred with Joseph’s submission.
Also, counsel for other defendants, including Kyari, did not oppose the motions.


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Drug: EU Contributes 50 Million Euros To Tackle Abuse, Trafficking In W/Africa - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 18, 2019
Head of Cooperation, European Union Delegation to ECOWAS,Kurt Cornelis, said that EU had contributed 50 million Euros to the fightagainst drug use and illicit drug trafficking in West Africa.
Cornelis stated this in an interview with newsmen at the end of the launch of2014-2017 West African report on drugs in Abuja.
He said the programme started in 2014 through EUimplementation partners, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimefollowingreported increase in drug abuse in the sub-region.
The EU official said it was also discovered years ago thatWest Africa was used to transport drugs, hence the bloc’s interest in fundingprogrammes that will curb the menace.
He said they support ECOWAS in many areas and they havenoticed that drug use and illicit trafficking of drugs have become a problem inWest Africa, so they decided to increase their support to ECOWAS in this area.


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Drug: FG Committed To Scale Up Response To Abuse Epidemic - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 7, 2019
Ministerfor Women Affairs and Social Development, Aisha Abubakar has said the FederalGovernment was commitment to scale up its response to drug abuse epidemic andrehabilitation of victims.
Aishasaid this when some members of the Queens College Old Girls Association,Northern chapter, visited her in Abuja.
Shenoted that drug abuse had become a major public health and security challengein Nigeria, saying it placed a significant threat to the social, health,economic fabric of the family and the productivity of the nation at large.
Shesaid that most women and children affected are afraid to report or giveinformation because they may be ridiculed, stigmatised or isolated.
Aisha said the ministry was open to work withcommitted stakeholders who can join in the efforts to stop the negative tide.
Earlier,the President of the Association, Fatima Betara, said that drug and substancesabuse as well as addiction were serious epidemic particularly in the North.


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Drug Security: KDSG Strategises To Customize Supplies - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 12, 2022
Executive Secretary of the Kaduna State Health Supplies management Agency, KADHSMA Aisha Tukur Isyaku made this known while speaking to the media in Kaduna.
She also observed that drug security is important because it helps  put measures in place to ensure that quality, safe and efficacious medicines are produced by facilities that meet the right standards and, that the integrity of such medicines are not compromised during its distribution along the supply chain from the manufacturers down to the consumers.
Aisha explained that with the embodiment and Customized logo, it will be easy to identify and trace any drug from the store of Kaduna State, noting that the state drug stores are stocked with quality and affordable drugs for the good use of the people.
She also stressed that with the contributory health insurance scheme, more people now visits, health facilities across the State, Hence, the need to increase the stock of drugs.

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Drug Trafficking: FG Advocates ECOWAS Implement Appropriate Structure To Tackle Emerging Threats - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 13, 2019
The Federal Government has called on the ECOWASCommission to implement an appropriate structure to check emerging illicit drugthreats in the region.
This is in line with the Political Declaration onthe Prevention of Drug Abuse, Illicit Drug Trafficking and Organised Crime inWest Africa, signed by the Heads of State in 2008.
Nigeria’s Minister of Justice and Attorney-Generalof the Federation Justice Abubakar Malami, SAN made the call at the 12thInter-Ministerial Drug Coordinating Committee of ECOWAS at its commission inAbuja on Friday.
Malami was represented by the Ahmadu Giade, SpecialAssistant to the President on Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substance,Ministry of Justice.
The Minister recalled that the Heads of Statesimilarly adopted and endorsed the Political Declaration and Regional ActionPlan to Combat Illicit Drug Trafficking, Organised Crimes and Drug Abuse inWest Africa.


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Drug Trafficking: Agency Arrests 8,634 In 8 Months, Seizures Worth N100bn – Marwa - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 13, 2021
Chairman of the Agency Buba Marwa told the Human Rights, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Committee of the UN General Assembly in New York, that NDLEA also made seizures of more than100 billion naira in drugs and cash over the period.
He added that consistent targeting of drug trafficking organisations has resulted in the arrest of 8,634 suspected drug traffickers and the seizure of over 100 billion naira in cash and drugs.
Marwa also explained that culprits will go through the criminal justice system, with their fundamental human rights being strictly upheld.
The Lago state former Military Administrator noted that against the backdrop of the strong linkage between illicit drug consumption and insecurity, it is worthy of note that Nigeria made its first seizure of 74.119 kilometres of Captagon brand of amphetamine, presumably destined for use, to fuel insurgency and other violent crimes and criminalities, which Nigeria is currently grappling with.
He however, appreciated the international partners for supporting Nigeria’s fight against drug abuse and trafficking. Marwa also told the UN committee that Nigerian government had produced the improved fourth edition of the Drug Control Master Plan 2021 to 2025 with the technical support from the UNODC, EU funding.

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Drug Trafficking : FG Advocates ECOWAS Implement Appropriate Structure To Tackle Emerging Threats - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 13, 2019
The Federal Government has called on the ECOWAS Commission to implement an appropriate structure to check emerging illicit drug threats in the region.
This is in line with the Political Declaration on the Prevention of Drug Abuse, Illicit Drug Trafficking and Organised Crime in West Africa, signed by the Heads of State in 2008.
Nigeria’s Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation Justice Abubakar Malami, SAN made the call at the 12th Inter-Ministerial Drug Coordinating Committee of ECOWAS at its commission in Abuja on Friday.
Malami was represented by the Ahmadu Giade, Special Assistant to the President on Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substance, Ministry of Justice.
The Minister recalled that the Heads of State similarly adopted and endorsed the Political Declaration and Regional Action Plan to Combat Illicit Drug Trafficking, Organised Crimes and Drug Abuse in West Africa.


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Drug Trafficking: FG Hails Singapore’s Court Decision To Free Nigerian On Death Row - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 30, 2019
DrugTrafficking: FG Hails Singapore’s Court Decision To Free Nigerian On Death Row
TheFederal Government has commended the decision of the Supreme Court of Singaporeto free a Nigerian Adili Ejike, who was earlier sentenced to death for drugtrafficking in the country.
TheActing Spokesperson, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Akpan said this in a statementon Thursday in Abuja.
Ejikewas arrested in 2011 and sentenced to death for importing nearly2-kilogramme of methamphetamine into Singapore.
Hewas granted an acquittal by the Singaporean apex court on May 27, 2019 andreleased with no outstanding charges.
Akpansaid the Ministry rejoiced with the family of Ejike for the favourablejudgment.
Hequoted the High Commission of Nigeria in Singapore, Akinremi Bolaji, as sayingthat “Ejike’s acquittal made history as the first time such a decision was madein a case involving any Nigerian.
Herecalled that a Nigerian student, Zainab Aliyu and another man, IbrahimAbubakar, were in April released by the Saudi authorities after they wereexonerated of drug trafficking.


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Drug Trafficking: NDLEA Opposes Abba Kyari’s Bail Request, Insists He’ll Escape - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 14, 2022
The NDLEA opposed Kyari’s bail request, on a day his wife, Ramatu,
collapsed in court.
The agency, in a 21-paragraph counter-affidavit it lodged before the
court, insisted that Kyari posed a flight risk.
It told the court that Kyari, who hitherto headed the Police Intelligence
Response Team, IRT, would excape from the country and make himself
unavailable for trial, should he be released from custody.
While adopting the counter-affidavit before trial Justice Emeka Nwite on
Monday, the NDLEA, through its Director, Prosecution & Legal
Services, Joseph Sunday, maintained that the former IRT boss has
tremendous influence in the Nigeria Police, insisting that he has the
capacity to interfere with its witnesses.
NDLEA added that one of Kyari’s alleged accomplices, ASP John
Umoru a.k.a Too Much Money, has absconded.
However, Kyari, in his bail application that was moved by Mr. Mahmud
Magaji, SAN, prayed the court to grant him bail on liberal conditions.
Arguing that the charge against him contained bailable offences, the
embattled DCP, urged the court to invoke the powers donated to it by
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Drug Trafficking: Niger Republic Makes Record Cocaine Seizure, Arrests Mayor - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 6, 2022
The drug, as well as the two suspects and their vehicle, were brought
before the press in Niamey by the Sahel nation’s drug agency.
The agency’s spokeswoman, Nana Aichatou Ousmane Bako said the
alleged smugglers were apprehended in a municipal car from Fachi,
whose mayor was also aboard.
She said the car was heading to Dirkou, which lies close to the border
with Libya, adding that the drugs’ final destination was Europe, where it
had an estimated street value of more than 19 million dollars.
Drug seizures have become frequent in Niger’s north, which has gained
a reputation for multiple types of trafficking, including gun-running and
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Drug Trafficking: Senate Orders FAAN To Beef Up Security At Airports. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 2, 2019
T,he Senate on Tuesday told the Federal AirportAuthority of Nigeria, FAAN to beef up security around all the airports in thecountry to check menace of drug trafficking.
This followed a motion moved by Senator IbrahimOloriegbe, and six others who called attention of their colleagues to recentalleged security beaches at the airports.
In the motion, the senator recalled how a Nigerian,Zainab Aliyu, was mistakenly arrested by the Saudi Drug Enforcement Agency overallegation of drug trafficking.
Oloriegbe also noted how Zamfara-born AlarammaIbrahim, was arrested at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, andlater spent also two years in Saudi detention camp over a similar allegation.
The lawmakers all raised concern on the issuesraised in the motion, and called for urgent actions by the Senate and theFederal Government.
After a voice vote called by President of theSenate, Ahmad Lawan, it was resolved that “FAAN should ensure installation andusage of effective CCTV cameras and other security systems in all Nigerianairports.


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Drugs Abuse: NIS Reiterates Commitment To Fighting Menace Among Personnel - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 31, 2019
The Comptroller-General, Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS Muhammad Babandede has reiterated his commitment to fighting drugs and substance abuse among the Service personnel.
Babandede, who made the assertion in a statement in Abuj,said efforts were being made to ensure that the Service was rid of drugs andsubstance abuse among the personnel, adding that those armed would bethoroughly tested.
The Immigration Boss had earlier ordered that the personnelshould go through test to ensure none was found abusing drugs, saying it wasdangerous to handle weapons while on drugs.
According to Babandede, the fight against substance anddrugs abuse is a war that every arms-bearing Service should embark on, to savethe lives of the officers and the civil society. He said those found guiltywould face the necessary punishment from the Service according to the lawsguiding the NIS.

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Drugs: NAFDAC Seals 20 Medicine Stores Over Alleged Sale Of Fake Products - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 12, 2019
The National Agency for Food, Drug Administrationand Control NAFDAC has said it sealed 20 shops and confiscated drugs worth over2 million naira at the Monday market in Maiduguri, Borno state.
NAFDAC Coordinator in the state, Nasiru Mato, who madethis known shortly after the raid, in an interview in Maiduguri, said thetraders were in possession of banned and expired products.
Mato said the raid was carried out after “intelligencegathering and undercover assessment”of the medicine facilities.
He said that the raid was part of the measures putin place to ensure traders and stakeholders ensured strict compliance with  NAFDAC’s regulations for the overall safetyand wellbeing of  consumers.
Mato pledged to leave no stone unturned in the fightagainst unwholesome product to safeguard public health.He therefore called on all consumers topatronise products that were certified by NAFDAC and avoid self medication.


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Drugs: NDLEA Seeks NGOs' Collaboration On Demand Reduction Strategies - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 13, 2019
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA calls for collaboration from the Non-Governmental Grganisations, NGOs in taking action toward strengthening drug demand reduction strategies.
The Chairman and Chief Executive of NDLEA Muhammad Abdullah who made the call at the maiden lecture series of South- South Professional Women Association, SSPWA in Abuja said such strategies should focus on evidence based drug use prevention, treatment and care in Nigeria.
The lecture had the theme; “Drug Abuse and Mental Health: The family perspective”.
Represented by Commander of Narcotics in NDLEA, Kayode Adeniyi, Abdullahi noted that though considerable efforts are being made by the agency to combat drug abuse, there was urgent need for CSOs, NGOs and other community groups to embark on continuous enlightenment campaigns against indiscriminate use of drug.


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DRUGS: NDLEA Takes Campaign To Mosques In Katsina - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 19, 2022
The agency’s Commander in the state, Mohammed Bashir and his entourage were at the Abubakar Sadiq Juma’at mosque, Filin Samji and Rafukka Juma’at mosque, Kofar Sauri, both in the state capital.
The Ramadan daily lectures gather faithful to listen to interpretation and explanations of the Holy Qur’an.
Speaking during the campaign at Rafukka Juma’at mosque, Bashir said the campaign aimed at sensitising parents and youths against the illegal use of drugs and hard substances.
He added that the move would assist in informing parents on measures to be taken on their children to stave off the use of hard drugs.
In his response, the Imam of Rafukka Juma’at mosque, Sheikh Husamat Babangida, said such initiative was a welcome development, “because the menace affects everyone’’.


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Drugs: UNODC Says Cannabis, Most Widely Used Substance In Nigeria In 2017 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 27, 2019
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODChas revealed that Cannabis was the most widely used substance in Nigeria in2017.
UNODC’s Representative, William Wu said in Lagosthat this was according to a report on a survey conducted by UNODC on Drug Use inNigeria 2018.
Wu spoke at a one-day conference organised by theAlcohol and Drug Addiction Referral Services in collaboration with Echoes ofMercy and Hope Foundation Outreach in Lagos.
The conference was in commemoration of theInternational Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking marked annually onJune 26.
According to the study, the high use of cannabis wasfollowed by pharmaceutical opioids mainly tramadol, and to a lesser extent,codeine.
In her remarks, a Consultant on Drug and AlcoholControl, Oyetola Adetola urged parents to always monitor their children’sbehaviour and performances for possible signs of drug addiction.


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“Drunk” Returning Officer: INEC Apologises To Electoral Officials - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 26, 2019
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,Electoral Officer in Bokkos Local Government of Plateau state Salihu Adamu Musahas apologised over the shameful behaviour of the Returning Officer deployed tothe area.
Musa was responding to a question raised by APC CollationOfficer in Pankshin Emmanuel Bok, who sought to know why he Musa, was declaringthe results of elections for Bokkos, instead of the Returning Officer, asstipulated by law.
Musa, in his explanation, told the party agents, observersand INEC officials that the Returning Officer, a university lecturer, was drunkon Sunday and was sacked when he could not perform his duty.
He apologized to the election officials on behalf of theelectoral body, and promised that the situation would not repeat itself.
Bok, who thanked Musa for the explanation, said that he hadintended to reject the result because they were not presented by the officerdesignated to do so.

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Dry Season: Fire Service Reviews Safety Code To Minimize Fire Outbreaks - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 6, 2021
Controller General of the Service Ibrahim Liman made this known in Minna, Niger state at the closing ceremony of a five-day summit on the review of the safety documents. The documents reviewed during the conference include: Fire and Rescue Safety Code, National Fire Rescue Policy, Standard Operating Procedure and Federal Fire Service Rules and Regulations.
He explained that that the review was to block gaps is the guidelines and ensure that structural developers, builders, occupants of buildings or properties imbibe the fire safety regulations.
Liman said the target was to reduce losses and protect investments, adding that the fire service standard operating procedure (SOP) review covered disaster management before, during and after, and the responsibilities of first responders during emergencies.
The conference consultant, a retired senior officer of the Service Olisaemeka Madichie, hoped that there would be a follow up of the document after submission to the appropriate authorities.
Also, one of the facilitators, retired Deputy Controller General of the service Quintus Azogu said the review was timely, as the Act guiding the service was obsolete and needed a rejig.

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DSS Cautions Against Unguarded Utterances About Kaduna Train Hostage Negotiator - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 12, 2022
DSS Spokesman Peter Afunanya stated that the warning became necessary following overzealous comments by some sections of the public on issues relating to the arrest and investigation of Mamu.
He added that the Service will cease further comments on the subject matter since the court will determine its course.
It will be recalled that Mamu was intercepted by Nigeria’s partners in Cairo on Tuesday while on his way to Saudi Arabia. He was extradited to Nigeria on Wednesday and taken into the Service’s custody.

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DSS Confirms Detention Of Kaduna Train Hostage Negotiator - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 8, 2022
The Public Relations Officer of DSS Peter Afunanya, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
He said the clarification followed series of enquires in respect of the arrest or otherwise of Mamu.
Afunanya said the arrest followed a request by Nigeria’s Military, Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community to their foreign partners to bring back Mamu to the country.
He said the request was for him to answer critical questions on ongoing investigations relating to some security matters in parts of the country.
The DSS spokesman said the law would appropriately take its course in the matter.

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DSS Denies Dispersing Doctors Attending Saudi Arabian Job Interview - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 27, 2021
Spokesman for the Service, Peter Afunanya, made the denial in a statement issued in Abuja.
Afunanya said the denial became necessary following incorrect information published circulated in some sections of the media that operatives of the DSS dispersed doctors attending the interview.
Afunanya urged the media to always crosscheck facts and guard against the use of their platforms to mislead the public or to undermine national security.


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DSS Operatives Re-Arrest Sowore, Bakare - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 6, 2019
Operatives of the Department of State Service DSS, re-arrested Omoyele Sowore, Convener, Revolution Now Protest, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare.
Sowore and Bakare had resisted being rearrested by theofficers of the security outfit shortly after Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu adjournedthe day’s proceeding till February 11th, 12th and 13th, 2020 for definitehearing.
Justice Ojukwu had, on Thursday, ordered the DSS to releaseSowore and Bakare within 24 hours after meeting his bail conditions.
Ojukwu, who gave the order, also awarded a 100, 000 nairafine against the DSS over its delay to serve the defence counsel with theadditional proof of evidence in the ongoing trial despite the court’s order tothe effect.
The DSS had, on Thursday, complied with the court order byreleasing the defendants and also paid the fine.
At today’s sitting, the DSS Counsel, Hassan Liman, SAN, toldthe court that the security agency had already complied with the order of thecourt.
He also hinted that based on the agreement between theparties, the matter be adjourned till February 11th, 12 and 13 to enable theparties respond to applications filed.

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DSTV: REPS C’ttee Vows To Implement Pay-As-You-Go Package - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 3, 2020
The House of Representatives ad hoc Committee investigating non implementation of pay-as-you-go package by DSTV and other satellite providers in the country has assured Nigerians of justice.
Chairman of the ad hoc committee, Unyime Idem gave the assurance while addressing journalists in Abuja after the inauguration of the committee by the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila.
Idem, also Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Communication, said the matter before the committee affected vast majority of Nigerians.
Edem said the committee was ready to step on toes, saying that constituents elected reps based on courage and boldness and that would be brought to play.
The lawmaker said all stakeholders including the regulators and service providers would be invited to deliberate on ways to open up the sector.
He said that all bottle necks would be critically looked into with the view to liberalising it for more interested Nigerians to benefit.


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D’Tigers ranked 23rd best team in the World - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Mohammed Abdulhammed
September 19, 2019
D’Tigers have moved  up 10 places to the 23rd in the World in the latest FIBA ranking released after the 2019 FIBA men’s World Cup in China.
The senior men’s team who became the first country in the world to qualify for the World Cup won 3 games and lost 2 during the competition to finish 17th out of the 32 participating team.
The Alex Nwora tutored side who have qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are still ranked number 1  in Africa ahead of Angola, Tunisia, Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire who are ranked 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th respectively.
While reacting after the ranking was published, Nigeria Basketball Federation President, Engr Musa Kida said the latest feat was the right reward for hard work put in place by the federation and the team during the qualifiers and World Cup preparation which culminated in a good outing in China.
“We are really excited with this announcement. It shows that the world has continued to pay attention to Nigerian basketball after many years of playing second fiddle.
“Although, I believe that we deserve more than being 23rd best team in the world based on our current form, but it is a process. The federation is excited that we are on the right track and we will continue to push harder in our resolve to record more successes.”
USA still hold on to the number 1 spot while current World Champion, Spain are ranked 2nd ahead of Australia who climbed 8 places to 3rd spot.

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Due Process: FG Searches For Forged Certificate Holders, Illegal Workers - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 4, 2020
TheActing Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Folashade Yemi-Esan say theFederal Government has activated a new process meant at stopping workerscollecting salaries without certificates or letters of appointment fromgovernment.
Yemi-Esanannounced the plan in the Keynote Address she delivered in Abuja, at theinduction of seven-hundred newly recruited officers on grade levels 07 to 10.
TheActing Head said the induction was last held in 2013. She noted that itsresuscitation would, among other advantages, save time and resources, improveoperational efficiency and promote good organisational communication, urgingthem to seek clarification in the course of duties.
Yemi-Esanlamented that in the past, training programmes for civil servants were bereftof structure and target, describing it as a major challenge.

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Durbar Hotel: Court Fixes April 4 For Abacha Family To Prove Ownership - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 10, 2022
The family a late former military Head of State, General Sani Abacha,
had dragged the state government before the court over alleged illegal
demolition of the property and alleged plans by the State government to
take over the property despite pending appeal on the matter at the
Supreme Court, which the state government filed challenging the
verdicts of lower courts.
At the resumed hearing of the suit on Thursday, counsel for the
defendants told the court that the defendants had filed a case of change
of counsel and requested a new date.
Against this background, the Presiding Judge, Justice Hannatu Balogun,
adjourned further hearing on the case to April 4th, 2022.
The Abacha family is demanding a declaration that it is the titleholder of
the property measuring about 5.378 hectares and covered by Kaduna
State Certificate of Occupancy and also that the demolition of the
property by the Kaduna State Government is unconstitutional, illegal,
null, and void.
It also asked the court for an order of injunction restraining the
defendants, their agents, servants, privies, and whosoever from
transferring, assigning or selling in any way part of the property.

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Dwindling Revenue: NESG To FG, Take Decisive Action On Leakages, Crude Oil Theft, Others - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 8, 2022
This was part of a communique issued by the Board of Directors of NESG.
NESG in the communique raised salient issues of concern, which it recalled that on 29 May 2015, the current administration was ushered in by a wave of hope, goodwill, and an overwhelming belief that real change was possible.
Well-meaning individuals and institutions provided all the necessary
support to ensure that the administration leveraged on the momentum
that propelled it into power, to deliver on its ‘change’ mantra effectively.
There was renewed optimism, especially as the President made clear commitments to address the pressing issues of insecurity, corruption,
and economic stagnation.
Meanwhile, the NESG group lamented and expressed pain over the
current precious economic situation pounding Nigerians.

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Dynamism Of Airpower Deployment Critical To Operational Success – NAF Boss - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 28, 2022
This was made known by the Director of Public Relations and Information, Nigerian Air Force, NAF Headquarters, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet in Abuja.
Amao noted that the air power had become a key determinant of operational effectiveness, as well as a force multiplier in all ongoing operations in the country.
He explained that the reactivation of the centre perfectly aligned with his vision for the service, tailored towards enhancing and sustaining critical air power capabilities required for joint force employment in pursuit of national security imperatives.
The CAS urged the pioneer Commandant of the centre, Air vice Marshal, AVM Micheal Onyebashi and staff, to prime the new institution for the highest standards and maximum impact. He urged the Centre to evolve new and dynamic approaches for NAF employment of air power.

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E-Border: FEC Approves N52bn For Solution - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Abubakar Abubakar
April 25, 2019
The Federal Executive Council, FEC, has approved 52 billion naira for e-border solution to monitor the country’s porous borders.
The approval was granted during the FEC meeting, presided over by the Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Interior Minister, AbdulRahman Dambazau while briefing the State House reporters, said the approval was granted following a memo by his ministry.
He said the contract will cover 86 border posts and all the over-1000 illegal routes being used for smuggling and other crimes.

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E-Cigarettes: NAFDAC Advises Nigerians - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Abubakar Abubakar
April 25, 2019
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control NAFDAC has alerted Nigerians on the dangers of e-cigarettes.
NAFDAC’s Director-General, Moji Adeyeye, in a statement on Thursday, said that the United State Food and Drug Administration revealed that there were risks involved with the use of e-cigarettes.
She advised Nigerians who used it to desist, adding that users of the product stood the risk of having convulsion.
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E-Cube Initiative Marks New-Turn For Nigeria’s Power Sector, Says FG - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 18, 2022
Acting Director, Renewable and Rural Power Access Department of the ministry, Ali-Dapshima Abubakar, said this in an address at the inaugural and demonstration ceremony of E-Cube products in Abuja.
Abubakar, represented by Chief Electrical Engineer in the ministry, Bem Ayangegor, said that renewable energy had become important to future of power generation for Nigeria mega cities, industrial-hubs and rural areas.
He said that the ministry, in 2020, officially established online portal to provide web-based data that would assist utility operators, regulators and policy makers involved in electrification planning and implementation in Nigeria.
According to him, it is built around the whole concept of green sustainability as an asset to communities and organisations and, can be assembled within 24 hours that require zero maintenance.